Coronavirus cases cross 57L, deaths tally rises to 91,149
3,834 + ve cases, 36 deaths in 24 hours Death count rises to 5,123
New Delhi: More recoveries than fresh cases of novel coronavirus continue to be recorded even as the total number of cases crossed 57.32 lakh. In the last 24 hours while there were 86, 508 new cases of Covid- 19, another set of 87, 374 persons recovered at the same time. With this, the total number of recoveries in the country is now 46.75 lakh and the Recovery Rate is 81.55%. This is the sixth consecutive day when higher recoveries than fresh cases was regisetred.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the second wave of Covid- 19 in Delhi has perhaps hit its peak and experts feel that the cases of infection will lessen in the coming days in the national capital.
Delhi recorded 3,834 new Covid- 19 cases. Of the total 2,60,623 patients, 31,125 are active and 2,24,375 patients were recovered. With 36 deaths in the last 24 hours, total death counts rose to 5,123.
Mr Kejriwal said that the government is “keeping its fingers crossed” and hoped that the Covid19 cases will “gradually” lower due to steps taken by the AAP dispensation. The national capital has been witnessing a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the last few days.
“All the experts believe that the second wave ( of coronavirus), which had come in Delhi, appears to have perhaps hit its peak. Now, it will lower in the coming days,” Mr Kejriwal told reporters.
The chief minister pointed out that the Covid- 19 cases in the city were by and large under control between July 1
and August 17 and on an average, 1100- 1200 new cases were being reported every day. “From August 17, the cases rose slightly from around 1,100 to 1,500 and as a responsible government, we did not take any risk and immediately scaled up testing from around 20,000 to 60,000 per day. The best way to defeat coronavirus is to conduct aggressive testing to identify and isolate positive cases,” said Mr Kejriwal.
“The coronavirus cases have increased in Delhi because testing was massively scaled up. The cases were around 4,500 on September 16 which have now started coming down and currently there are around 3, 700 cases ( daily),” he said.
According to Mr Kejriwal, had the testing would have scaled down to previous level of daily 20, 000 tests, the cases would have come down to around 1, 500 per day.